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Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of class, students will be able to...

• practice analysis as evidenced by a think-write-pair-share and a fishbowl discussion to compare and contrast visual text with written text.

Due Today: "I Hear America Singing" Annotations and Jolly Flatboatmen in Port Analysis Notes (teacher will stamp, keep at desk)

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• Due Mon 1/23: Acquire Outside Reading Book
• Due Tue 1/24: Catalog Poem "I Hear America..."
  • Poem must be in final format on plain printer paper, in ink or typed, same number of lines and format as Whitman's poem, decorate your paper to fit your theme with color and symbol(s)
  • Reflection: Explain your poetic devices:
    • 1. What refrain or repeated phrase did you choose (repetition)
    • 2. What tone did you create and what words help depict that tone in your poem?
    • 3. What imagery did you portray and how? Give an example
    • 4. What is the theme of your poem (your message)?

Essential Questions:

• Who are the American Masters and what are their philosophical assumptions that influenced their texts?
• How do authors use literary, rhetorical and poetic devices to support their claims?

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Agenda
1. Learning Logs- Update and Quick Write

• Reflect back on Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"; Now, describe how you "hear" America and your interpretation of "America singing", what you hear it doing, saying, thinking, believing etc....

2. Catalog Poem Assingment- Review Instructions

3. Jolly Flatboatmen in Port and "I Hear America Singing" Comparison/Analysis Fishbowl
4. Visual Text The Jolly Flatboatmen in Port by George Caleb Bingham

Jolly Flatboatmen Image.jpg

1857 Oil on Canvas 47 1/4 x 69 5/8

5. Closing: Update learning log- evidence of meeting learning target? Be prepared to share.

• P2 Only: Ethos, Pathos, Logos Review
  • think-pair-share: Describe ethos, pathos and logos to your partner. Be prepared to share.
  • Cornell Notes on inauguration speech: record evidence of Trump's use of ethos, pathos and logos. Can you find examples of each?